Monday, 8 August 2011

The Honest Truth

The following account is true. I promise.

I was sitting in Terminal 3 JFK today, waiting for the last Minneapolis flight (which I didn't get on!) when a family sat down along the table next to me. They were using the free iPads set up on the table, checking out this that and something else. About 82 kids (ok, only 4, but they were EVERYWHERE) older teens or early 20s, all of them. Anyway, they were talking about various things, and I just knew they were from Salt Lake. But, I didn't ask, because I didn't want to make them uncomfortable (a random stranger asking where they lived.) Eventually, though, my curiosity over came my good sense. I asked, "Are you from Salt Lake?" They said yes (the mom) and I said, "That's where I'm living now, too." And we started talking. They asked what I do, and lacking anything better to say for the moment, I said, "I've been teaching at BYU for the past year." They asked what subject. I said Linguistics. They said, "Oh, our son Mack graduates on Friday from BYU in Linguistics."

I went... Mack. Graduating. Do you mean Mack xxxxxx? Gobsmacked looks. YES! Hilarious. I actually had him for two different classes! I had him for one class Winter Term, and another Spring.

Welcome!

Hi! I'm Adele. (You say that like "Let's make a deal".) Welcome to High Class Hitchhiking. Wait, you've never heard of High Class Hitchhiking? It's my term for flying standby. When you fly standby, you're basically begging for a lift, ergo - hitchhiking! But when you go begging for a lift, you get put wherever they happen to have room. Even when that's 1st class! So, flying standby is Posh Hitchhiking. And hitchhiking, as we all know, is never the simplest rout. This blog chronicles the (mis)adventures of the journey. Hope you laugh as much as I did at the time!

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